Baby Miracle! 62-Year-Old Spanish Woman Gives Birth To Third Child Via C-Section

Women are not letting old age stop them from having babies later on in life. It is being reported that a 62-year-old Spanish woman has just given birth to a baby girl.

According to FOX News Latino, Lina Alvarez, has just welcomed life’s most precious gift. A doctor in the northwestern town of Lugo, Alvarez has just given birth to a baby girl. Her daughter Lina was via C-Section after her blood pressure shot up.

“I’m the happiest person on the planet. Everything went perfectly,” Alvarez tells The Sun.

Alvarez has two other children – 28-year-old Exiquio and 10-year-old Samuel – and, when she announced publicly that she was eight months pregnant, she received a great deal of criticism amid calls for a law limiting the age at which women can obtain fertility treatment.

The site reports that her son Samuel was conceived via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) when Alvarez was 52- just 10 years after she went through menopause. When trying to get pregnant for the third time, she had to travel to Madrid to see a gynecologist because many clinics in Lugo refused to take her case.

“I always wanted to be a mother again, but most medical experts said ‘no.’” she told The Sun. “Then some years ago, I met a gynecologist who agreed to help me if the tests were OK. They were positive, and so he helped me implant an embryo.”

Her daughter was born at Lucas Augusti hospital two weeks early weighing in at 5 lbs. and 3 ounces.

“They said there was only a 6 percent chance of success, but I got pregnant with a baby girl. I feel like I’m having a second chance, and the pregnancy has made me younger and stronger.”

Although 62 is an old age to have a child, Alvarez is not the oldest. Dalijinder Kaur from India is currently the oldest woman to have a child at the age of 70.